"The One... The One... was a comedy sketch television series starring Ronnie Corbett, of The Two Ronnies, Lenny Henry of The Lenny Henry Show, Jasper Carrott, comedian and former presenter of ITV game show Golden Balls and Welsh comedian and actor Griff Rhys Jones, also presenter of ITV clip series It'll Be Alright on the Night. It was devised by Matt Lucas, David Walliams and Geoff Posner for Little Britain Productions. Walliams departed the project by the time of the full series. The show debuted in 2010 with Corbett, to celebrate his 80th birthday. In 2011, it was confirmed that"
"English cricket. Chef and TV presenter Jamie Oliver comes from and lives in Clavering. His father Trevor runs one of the two village pubs, The Cricketers. The Fox and Hounds is located at the other end of the village opposite the River Stort. Both the Fox and The Cricketers attract people from nearby villages such as Arkesden, Wicken Bonhunt and Langley Upper Green as well as Clavering residents. Notable sites in Clavering include Clavering Castle and the former Clavering guildhall – now known as The Bury. The remains of the castle are now just ringworks and earthworks. The castle is"
"and Bob Wyatt (R.E.S.), England Cricket Captain for a number of years from 1934. The Beastie Boys stayed in the village for two weeks in 1988, writing the B-side ""Jubbsy's Treasure"". Former county cricketer Dominic Ostler, a key member of Warwickshire's historic treble winning side in 1994, who lives in neighbouring Balsall Common, went on to skipper Berkswell Cricket Club in the Birmingham League, winning the league's Twenty20 Cup competition in 2010. Numerous television series have shot scenes in Berkswell – including BBC's ""Beat the Boss"" and ITV's Comedy/Drama ""Love and Marriage"". Berkswell Berkswell ( ) is a village and"
"every Christmas and puts on concerts in and around the surrounding area. They also compete in the 1st Section of the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain. Famous people from Otterbourne include Chris Tremlett who plays cricket for England and Surrey, and novelist Charlotte Mary Yonge. The village of Otterbourne, on the stream Otter Bourne, lies on the old Roman road between ""Venta Belgarum"" (Winchester) and ""Clausentum"" (Southampton). It appears in the Domesday Book as Otrebourne. The physicist Sir Isaac Newton lodged at Cranbury House in his twilight years, and John Keble, a leader of the Oxford Movement, settled"
"aged 16 to 18. There is also a very active sports club, which has developed from the village cricket club founded in 1896. Oxshott also has two public houses: ""The Victoria"" and ""The Bear"". In a local monopoly, both were owned by the Courage Brewery, which still owns ""The Victoria"". The village has a large number of United States nationals and expatriates with their social organisations, due in part to the nearby ACS Cobham International school. The village features in some versions, such as the Summer Olympics version, of the currently annual London-Surrey cycle classic. Oxshott is featured in the"
"Oak Methodist Church was built in 1868, but was replaced by a modern building in the 1970s. It is situated in Newgatestreet Road, close to the War Memorial. http://www.goffsoakmethodistchurch.org.uk. Victoria Beckham was raised in the village. Fenerbache striker Robin Van Persie, lived in the area. The tennis player Richard Lewis lived in Jones Road, Goffs Oak, and attended Goffs School during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He went on to represent Great Britain in the Davis Cup, and is now Chair of SportEngland. In April 2012, Richard Lewis was appointed Chief Executive Officer at the All England Tennis Club,"
"both social and geographical, accents on the east side of Wirral tend to show a stronger Merseyside influence than those on the west side. Neston once had a distinctive dialect derived from the migrant workers at the Denhall Colliery. Wirral has been home to many notable people, including: Ian Botham (cricketer), current ""Antiques Roadshow"" presenter Fiona Bruce, Daniel Craig (actor), Steve Cummings (cyclist), Matt Dawson (rugby union player), Mike Dean (football referee), Austin Healey (rugby union player), Emma Hamilton (mistress of Horatio Nelson), Shirley Hughes (author and illustrator), Andrew Irvine (Everest climber), Glenda Jackson (actress and politician), Paul O'Grady (TV"
"of their father in 1870, George Gissing and his two younger brothers were sent to Lindow Grove, a quaker boarding school in Alderley Edge, whose headmaster James Wood was often parodied by the novelist. Footballers who live in Alderley Edge include Joleon Lescott, Dwight Yorke and Manchester United players Rio Ferdinand and Michael Carrick. David Beckham and his wife Victoria Beckham previously resided in Alderley Edge. A number of ""Coronation Street"" actors, including Helen Flanagan, Denise Welch and Richard Fleeshman also live in the village. The Edge is a wide red sandstone escarpment situated above the village of Alderley. An"
"recordings and performed concerts on the BBC. The composer Edward Elgar was friends with the former owner (Mr. Embleton) of 'The Cedars' – now a residential home – and often stayed in the village. Nick Hodgson, drummer of the Leeds band the Kaiser Chiefs, has family connections with the village. The band officially opened the new village primary school on 16 January 2006. Other notable residents of the village have included Rugby league players Brian Lockwood, Dean Mountain, Daryl Powell, Ben Crooks, Kelvin Skerrett was born in the village, and footballer Paul Rickers. Each year the village holds a Scarecrow"
"a vet's surgery, library, Co-op and post office / general stores. Coldharbour Mill remains a popular tourist attraction, with its working wool museum exhibits, as do the scenic old railway and riverside walks. During 2008 the village's Langlands Business Park featured in the Channel 4 fly-on-the-wall documentary ""Wonky Willie's Chocolate Factory"", being the location of Willie Harcourt-Cooze's chocolate factory, one of the first places to make cocoa in the UK since the Cadbury family. The singer Joss Stone lived near Ashill, a hamlet in the parish of Uffculme, and attended Uffculme School. Snooker player Sam Baird comes from the village."
"the village. Michael Dent, the only British player to have ever won the European Table Soccer (Sports table football) Championship, first learnt to play Subbuteo whilst a teenager living in Dore. Michael Vaughan of Yorkshire County Cricket Club and former captain of the England cricket team, is a resident; Joe Root also of Yorkshire and now England's rising cricket star, currently captain of England, was born and raised in Dore. Abbeydale Park, a former county cricket ground for both Derbyshire and Yorkshire, lies just north of the suburb. Recently, Sheffield's Olympic gold medalist Jessica Ennis-Hill purchased a property in the"
"is also home to AFC Hurst which is a local football team consisting of 2 teams, the 1’s play in the Mid Sussex Football League Division 4 and the 2’s playing the same league but Division 9 A notable local resident was Jimmy Hill, former Match of the Day presenter and football player, manager and chairman, who was generous of his time for local events, clubs and societies until his death on 19 December 2015 aged 87. Greta Scacchi also lived in the village until 2011 when a dispute with a neighbour led her to leave. The agricultural chemist Sir"
". An annual memorial motorcycle run was held every March from the former Norton motorcycle factory to Tanworth, although this was stopped after the 2011 event . The village was also the filming location for the fictional village of Kings Oak from the British television series ""Crossroads"" between 1970 and 1988. The parish includes Umberslade Hall, for six hundred years the home of the Archer family and later the industrialist George Frederic Muntz. The village lies close to the ex-Great Western Railway line from Birmingham to Stratford-upon-Avon but has never had a station of its own: rather it lies midway"
"East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. He currently presents the sports news on the BBC News channel from MediaCityUK in Salford. Johnson was a part of the BBC's TV coverage of the South Africa 2010 FIFA World Cup, presenting a series of magazine style mini-documentaries and interviews before and after matches - notably before England's crucial 2nd round tie with Germany. He has reported from three World Cup tournaments, three European Championships and six Africa Cup of Nations tournaments. During that time he has interviewed the biggest names in the sport – top English players like David Beckham, Steven Gerrard and Wayne"
"cleared the area to recreate the previously open panoramic views of both the Severn Bridges and beyond to the Black Mountains in Wales. The village shop on Barrs Lane has been run as a voluntary organisation by villagers since 2001. Since 2007 the villagers have organised the annual Nibley Music Festival. The village is home to the Nibley Nobblers football team and Nibley Cricket Team, who have won the legendary Pratt Cup two seasons in a row. In 2014 the final episode of the third series of BBC One's ""Sherlock"" featured the futuristic Swinhay House, home of Renishaw plc founder"
"in early June. Jaques of London in Edenbridge in Kent claims to have invented croquet and table tennis, and the card game Happy Families. The Hambledon Cricket Club, in south-east Hampshire, was the birthplace of modern cricket. Cricket was developed as a game for Hampshire and Kent farmers. The BDO World Darts Championship are held in early January at Lakeside Leisure Complex. Wentworth Golf Club in Surrey is the home of the BMW PGA Championship. Charles William Miller, who went to school in Southampton, was responsible for taking football to Brazil. He had a Scottish father and a Brazilian mother;"
"Australian Formula One driver Mark Webber lists Aston Clinton as his home in England where he lives with his partner Ann Neal. The BAFTA and Oscar winning special effects make-up artistDavid Malinowski lives in the village. Aston Clinton Household Recycling Centre opened in 2009 and was built to the north of the village off the A41 Aston Clinton bypass. In 2011 a new industrial park opened in Aston Clinton called Halton Brook Business Park, designed and developed by Horstonbridge Development Management which replaced an old dairy, demolished in 2006, that once stood in the same location. Two companies currently occupy"
"AFC fields a 1st and 2nd team every Saturday who play in the York Minster League. There is also a bowls green (made of grass) and tennis courts (made of concrete) at the same location, which require membership. Tockwith Tockwith is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England, near the town of Wetherby and the city of York. There has been a village on the site since at least 1086 when ""Tocvi"" was mentioned in the ""Domesday Book"". Tockwith's greatest claim to fame is being used as a staging post by Oliver Cromwell prior"
"Bulls Head, The Wheatsheaf and The Queens Hotel. In addition, a microbrewery, Howard Town Brewery, is located in Old Glossop. In 2013, Old Glossop was used for filming in the BBC drama series ""The Village"", starring John Simm and Maxine Peake. The Parish Church of All Saints and the former Duke of Norfolk school building appeared in the series. Old Glossop Old Glossop is a parish village and the original part of the town of Glossop in the High Peak area of Derbyshire, England, about 15 miles east of Manchester and 23 miles west of Sheffield. The village is on"
"Olympic gold medallist Jayne Torvill, England rugby international Joe Marler, former ""Doctor Who"" actor Tom Baker, guitarist Fred Frith and national badminton player Heather Olver. Heathfield, East Sussex Heathfield is a small, affluent market town in East Sussex, England. Heathfield lies near the junction of two main roads: the A267 between Royal Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne; and the A265 from Hawkhurst. It is almost equidistant from Tunbridge Wells and Eastbourne: approximately 16 mi (26 km). Historically, Heathfield lay on an ancient trackway (The Ridgeway), connecting the South Downs with the Weald. Its market charter was granted in February 1316 during"
"Jane McGrath, who married Australian cricketer Glenn McGrath was born in Paignton, her long battle with and subsequent death from breast cancer inspired the formation of the McGrath Foundation, which is one of Australia's leading charities. Tamar Valley AONB Devon Devon (), also known as Devonshire, which was formerly its common and official name, is a county of England, reaching from the Bristol Channel in the north to the English Channel in the south. It is part of South West England, bounded by Cornwall to the west, Somerset to the north east, and Dorset to the east. The city of"
"railway viaduct. The line remains open to passenger and freight traffic. One of the most notable residents is David Vernon, known for his long distance running and appearance on the Channel 4 show 'Countdown'. Carronbridge Carronbridge is a village in the parish of Morton in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The village is at the junction of the A76 and A702 roads approximately north of Thornhill. The hamlet of Enterkinfoot lies slightly to the north. To the west of the village the Carron Water flows into the River Nith. Carronbridge Sawmill is in the village and is a Category B listed"
"company behind 'Harvest', then abuptly ceased trading even though it has already taken ticket fees for 2012. 'Alex James Presents Harvest' will also be remembered for a photograph of Alex James with David Cameron and Jeremy Clarkson. Since 2012, James – along with Jamie Oliver - has hosted an annual food and music festival “The Big Feastival” on his Oxfordshire farm. On joining forces with James, Oliver said ""'The Big Feastival' was a great success in South London last year and I cannot wait to take this celebration of the greatest chefs, the best local produce and suppliers and some"
"The Great Brook Run. Proceeds of the race, which starts and ends at The Tite Inn, go to the parish primary school. Former Witney MP David Cameron has taken part in the event. Chadlington Chadlington is a village and civil parish in the Evenlode Valley about south of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. The village has five neighbourhoods: Brookend, Eastend, Greenend, Millend and Westend. There is a bowl barrow about west of the village. Bowl barrows range from to late Bronze Age, ""i.e."" 2400 to 1500 BC. The barrow is a scheduled monument. Knollbury is a hill-fort northwest of the village. It"
"Local man Dave Mellor was the 1978 BriSCA Formula 1 Stock Cars World Champion. Ashbourne, Derbyshire Ashbourne is a market town in the Derbyshire Dales, England. It has a population of 7,112. It contains many historical buildings and many independent shops and is famous for its historic annual Shrovetide football match. Due to its proximity to the southern edge of the Peak District and being the closest town to the popular area of Dovedale, the town is known as both the 'Gateway to Dovedale' and the 'Gateway to the Peak District'. Ashbourne is a market town and was granted a"
"member of The Jam, Bruce Foxton; television presenter Anthea Turner; boss of McLaren F1 Formula One racing team, Ron Dennis; and broadcaster Chris Evans. It was during a stay at Hoe Farm in 1915 that statesman and future Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill learned to paint. The Surrey Hills AONB, one of the many natural landscapes of the county, which includes this parish contributes much to the county's mean high level of domestic incomes. ""A History of Hascombe – A Surrey Village"" by Winifred Ashton Hascombe Hascombe is a village in Surrey, England. It contains a cluster of cottages and"
"early interest in the area and Sherwood is associated with the Dawkins family. Sherwood Content Sherwood Content is a small town in Trelawny Parish, Jamaica. It consists of two adjoining villages, Sherwood and Content. It is the home town of world record sprinter Usain Bolt. It contains the Sherwood Content Health Centre, a post office, Waldensia Baptist Church and Waldensia Primary School. Bolt has funded over $3 million in repairs to the health centre and gave the green light to a memorandum of understanding between the National People's Co-operative Bank (NPCB) and the Ministry of Health. The village contains a"
"Sherwood Content Sherwood Content is a small town in Trelawny Parish, Jamaica. It consists of two adjoining villages, Sherwood and Content. It is the home town of world record sprinter Usain Bolt. It contains the Sherwood Content Health Centre, a post office, Waldensia Baptist Church and Waldensia Primary School. Bolt has funded over $3 million in repairs to the health centre and gave the green light to a memorandum of understanding between the National People's Co-operative Bank (NPCB) and the Ministry of Health. The village contains a number of dilapidated 19th-century houses. William Knibb was reported to have shown an"
"attempt was made to relocate the house to America and rebuild it there, a movement was begun locally to purchase the house by local public subscription. Queen Victoria headed the list with a gift of £20, a considerable amount at the time – approximately £2,360 as of 2016. The village was the birthplace of cricketer J. T. Hearne, one of the greatest bowlers of the 1890s and 1900s, who died there in 1944, and of the actress Alexandra Gilbreath. Notable residents of the village have included Ozzy Osbourne, Harry Golombek, Brian Connolly, Brian Cant, Chicane, Armando Iannucci, Noel Gallagher, and"
"occupied by the defunct chicken farm, some on land occupied by the defunct Wessex Homes mobile home factory, and some on Pleydell's Farm in the middle of the village. TV presenter Jack Hargreaves, known for having devised and presented ""How!"", ""Out of Town"" and ""Old Country"", lived at Belchalwell. Okeford Fitzpaine Okeford Fitzpaine is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, situated in the Blackmore Vale south of the town of Sturminster Newton in the North Dorset administrative district. It is sited on a thin strip of greensand under the scarp face of the Dorset Downs."
"by the Central ITV and BBC East Midlands TV regions. Doveridge Doveridge is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, United Kingdom, near the border with Staffordshire and about east of Uttoxeter. Its name may come from its having a bridge over the river Dove (i.e. Dove(B)ridge), a tributary of the River Trent. The civil parish population (including Oaks Green) as taken at the 2011 Census was 1,622. Doveridge has a pub, the ""Cavendish Arms"", a village shop, and a working men's club. The village also has a football team and a cricket team, both quite successful in their local"
"ancillery sites around Essex. The 'Aveley' plant was situated along and west of the railway line, adjacent to Ockendon station in the Belhus Ward that part of Ockendon now commonly known as ""Belhus"" and also used to name a nearby golf club west of the M25. Thomas Bennett Sturgeon was responsible for all the merino sheep imported into Australia and New Zealand, forming the entire basis of their wool and lamb economy. There are two professional football players Ola Aina and Alex Iwobi signed to Arsenal and Chelsea respectively The railway line from Upminster to Grays separates the old village"
"circulation. A farmers' market, launched by Jasper Conran and Isabella Blow on 3 July 1999, takes place every Saturday at the Cornhill market. It was nominated for the national Farmers' Market of the Year in 2001 and won it in 2007 and 2013. It also won the ""Cotswold Life"" magazine award for the best farmers' market in Gloucestershire in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2010. The market featured in an episode of BBC TV's ""The Hairy Bikers' Food Tour of Britain"" in September 2009, and won the Best Food Market award at the BBC Food & Farming Awards 2010. It is"